Russia invades Ukraine Feb 2022

[johnnycool]

Skull is getting very tiresome.  Why bother listening to him?

Europe seems to be getting its act together regarding defence spending before Trump is inaugurated.

You say that like its a good thing!

Defence spending = death and destruction.

If these wars are so just, let the share holders of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, and the rest send their kids to the front line along with all the politicians kids..

Russia invaded Ukraine. What part of that is hard for you to understand?

Defence spending is necessary to enable Ukraine to defend itself.

If you're worried about the profits of said companies perhaps you should direct your ire towards the Kremlin.

Get yourself tooled up and off you go.
The Ukrainian army will welcome you with open arms.

[Banks of the Bann]

Skull is getting very tiresome.  Why bother listening to him?

Europe seems to be getting its act together regarding defence spending before Trump is inaugurated.

You say that like its a good thing!

Defence spending = death and destruction.

If these wars are so just, let the share holders of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, and the rest send their kids to the front line along with all the politicians kids..

Russia invaded Ukraine. What part of that is hard for you to understand?

Defence spending is necessary to enable Ukraine to defend itself.

If you're worried about the profits of said companies perhaps you should direct your ire towards the Kremlin.

Get yourself tooled up and off you go.
The Ukrainian army will welcome you with open arms.

Of all the idiotic takes this one has to be the most idiotic of all.

It's also a favourite of the Irish pro-Russian and closet pro-Russian crowd.

As if you can't support the right of a country to defend itself from a genocidal invasion from the empire next door without taking up arms yourself and heading to the front line.

Ukraine has never asked a single country for troops. They have asked for weapons and the means to defend themselves. You want to deny them even that and then cynically mock those who want Ukraine to be able to defend themselves.

If Ukraine had actually been given what they needed back in Autumn 2022 at the time of their successful Kharkiv offensive this war would probably be over and hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

The dithering over arms to Ukraine has cost lives and prolonged the war.

You would leave Ukraine completely defenceless with your cynical fake pacifism.

[Dag Dog]

Sad to see people who would classify themselves as nationalists on the Irish question, are so keen to piss all over Ukraine.
There is little sympathy for a nation suffering at the hands of a big power. Russia is not just trying to capture territory, they also deny that Ukraine even has a legitimate identity.

Sinn Fein themselves were calling for Ukraine to be disarmed in their election manifesto. They pull against anything they see associated with 'The West', cosy up to Russia and China, yet they shamelessly rock up to America and hoover up millions in donations from the yanks.

[Dag Dog]

Skull is getting very tiresome.  Why bother listening to him?

Europe seems to be getting its act together regarding defence spending before Trump is inaugurated.

You say that like its a good thing!

Defence spending = death and destruction.

If these wars are so just, let the share holders of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, and the rest send their kids to the front line along with all the politicians kids..

Russia invaded Ukraine. What part of that is hard for you to understand?

Defence spending is necessary to enable Ukraine to defend itself.

If you're worried about the profits of said companies perhaps you should direct your ire towards the Kremlin.

Get yourself tooled up and off you go.
The Ukrainian army will welcome you with open arms.

Or how about you head over there and join the Russian/North Korean army? They'd love to have you.

[armaghniac]

Skull is getting very tiresome.  Why bother listening to him?

Europe seems to be getting its act together regarding defence spending before Trump is inaugurated.

Defence spending = death and destruction.

This is complete nonsense. You might as well say that police spending leads to more crime, when its purpose is to dissuade crime.

[bennydorano]

It is teenager mentality politics not rooted in the realities of the world. I often think back to the defund the police movement in the US, similar nonsense.

[seafoid]

Skull is getting very tiresome.  Why bother listening to him?

Europe seems to be getting its act together regarding defence spending before Trump is inaugurated.

You say that like its a good thing!

Defence spending = death and destruction.

If these wars are so just, let the share holders of Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, and the rest send their kids to the front line along with all the politicians kids..

Defence spending also means you don't get attacked . Stopping Russia is expensive.

[seafoid]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/16/north-korea-ukraine-russia-war-kursk-hur-language-barrier/
North Korean soldiers have accidentally killed eight Russian troops after a misunderstanding caused by the language barrier, according to Ukrainian intelligence .

According to HUR, Kyiv's military intelligence, the deadly incident occurred when "fearful" North Koreans opened fire on vehicles from Russia's "Akhmat" Chechen legion in Kursk, which Moscow is trying to recapture from Ukraine.

[Wildweasel74]

To the North Koreans it's gonna be hard to tell different between Ukrainians and Russians.

[Main Street]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/16/north-korea-ukraine-russia-war-kursk-hur-language-barrier/
North Korean soldiers have accidentally killed eight Russian troops after a misunderstanding caused by the language barrier, according to Ukrainian intelligence .

According to HUR, Kyiv's military intelligence, the deadly incident occurred when "fearful" North Koreans opened fire on vehicles from Russia's "Akhmat" Chechen legion in Kursk, which Moscow is trying to recapture from Ukraine.

[Main Street]

Ukraine Pravda 15 dec.
On December 14, for the first time in history, the North Korean army launched a massive attack on the positions of the AFU near the city of Sudzha (Kursk Oblast)

*Over 200 enemy soldiers attacked from multiple directions in separate groups,
 *Russian forces provided massive fire support, and Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems 

Despite suffering losses, the enemy's assault groups advanced head-on, undeterred even by precise fire and heavy strikes from Ukrainian weapons. This strategy resembles the "human wave" tactics employed by the North Korean and Chinese armies during the Korean War of 1950-1953.
Video footage available to the Ukrainian command shows dozens of bodies of North Korean soldiers
The attack was carried out by an entire battalion of North Korean troops, demonstrating a high level of combat training and coordination.
 It is evident that the Russian command plans to continue sending fresh waves of North Korean "cannon fodder" into battle.

[NAG1]

Wonder will these assassinations inside Russia start to have any bleed through to the Russian public.

[Banks of the Bann]

Wonder will these assassinations inside Russia start to have any bleed through to the Russian public.

I wouldn't think so, I think the Russian public will simply shrug their shoulders.

It will get through to the thousands of Russian war criminals that they now have a target on their backs that will be acted upon.

[Dag Dog]

On social media, lots of tankies are enraged by a Russian war criminal being whacked, not a peep out of them about the slaughter of Ukrainians.

[Banks of the Bann]

On social media, lots of tankies are enraged by a Russian war criminal being whacked, not a peep out of them about the slaughter of Ukrainians.

Speaking of which - check out NIs resident moron tankie Phil Kelly - never off our airwaves and TV thanks to Stephen Nolan - wishing none other than the 20thC bloodiest murderer Stalin a happy birthday yesterday.

https://x.com/phil_kelly_/status/1869511843741593635?s=46

How can you claim to be against the slaughter of innocents such as in Gaza and yer hero worship someone like Stalin?

Tankieism is a mental illness.